Word: destination
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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GROWING UP near the Florida panhandle, meant the inevitable spring break pilgrimage to Destin beach. Around this time every year, the diets began. Bananas only the first day; then strawberries the next, then apples the next. But at the beach, you could finally drink and eat potato chips--unless it started showing--and fast for the next day until your stomach was flat...
...emphasizing established business lines of demonstrated profitability." Despite ambitious efforts to find new oil, however, Exxon's results have been mixed. Since 1978 its oil reserves have dwindled 13%, to 7 bil lion bbl. In the meantime, costly drilling in the Baltimore Canyon and in the Destin Dome region of the Gulf of Mexico has turned up a discouraging number of dry holes. Wall Street stock analysts think that other oil companies may have greater growth potential, and the price of Exxon stock has plummeted 40%, to $27 per share, since November...